Horror: A Literary History

Xavier Aldana Reyes

Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love

Zefyr Lisowski

Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away

Coltan Scrivner

Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science Behind Your Favorite Monsters

Carlyn Beccia

The Penguin Book of Hell (Penguin Classics)

Scott G. Bruce

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

Grady Hendrix

The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist

Matt Baglio

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Zora Neale Hurston

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Mallory O'Meara

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

Robin R. Means Coleman

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)

Kathryn Harkup

True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking

Don Coscarelli

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Into the Forest and all the Way Through

Cynthia Pelayo

The Smallest of Bones

Holly Lyn Walrath

Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror

Lee Murray

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Anna Bogutskaya

Uncanny: The Origins of Fear

Junji Ito

Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread

Leila Taylor

Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

Eleanor Johnson

The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

Sarah Clegg

Not Your Average Zombie: Rehumanizing the Undead from Voodoo to Zombie Walks

Chera Kee

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema (Film and Culture Series)

Angela M. Smith

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

Mariana Enríquez

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

Robin R. Means Coleman

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet

Geo Rutherford